Polaroid Skins: The Queering of Photography

From Yes & No. Vol. 3, No. 3

Yes & No presents a carefully curated juxtaposition of the prose poem ‘Coda (The Queering of Photography)’ with works from Skin. ‘Coda’ is a disjointed monologue written from a photographer’s perspective. Whilst the narrator is constant, the recipient is sometimes a human, but other times a photograph, a camera, or a negative. This text is grounded in a queer sensibility and is written as an homage to the photograph’s materialisation as both negative and print and takes the reader all the way back to the 19th century daguerreotype. The colourful polaroid emulsion works from Skin circle around these texts like unruly creatures of photographic queerness.